Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Two millenniums of oppression may not seem very funny, but in his latest one-man show, Mr. Leguizamo hones the art of comic revisionism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54PMTuesday, November 14, 2017
In Anna Ziegler’s new play, a charge of sexual assault on a college campus leads to a hearing that may be worse than the events that prompted it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04PMWednesday, November 8, 2017
In Julia Cho’s tense new work, a creative-writing teacher tries to reach a shut-down (and possibly armed) young student.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04PMSunday, November 5, 2017
With nonverbal characters and savants, a new play demonstrates just how broad and multicolored that spectrum is.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PMWednesday, November 1, 2017
“Marcel” and “The Art of Laughter” at Theater for a New Audience offer a demonstration and then a master class in European-style clowning.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:07PMKnown for brassy musicals like “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” David Yazbek is also a dark solo act. Now, with “The Band’s Visit,” his different personas come together.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMWednesday, October 25, 2017
Denise Gough is sensational as a strung-out actress facing a world of questions about addiction and responsibility in a play by Duncan Macmillan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMTuesday, October 24, 2017
With its relentless fusillade of punch lines, John Patrick Shanley’s new play starring Jason Alexander and Sherie Rene Scott winds up on the ropes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMMonday, October 23, 2017
A riveting revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s prison drama may be more timely today than at its premiere in 2000.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMThursday, October 12, 2017
In a hybrid of concert and autobiography, Bruce Springsteen delivers a major statement about his life’s work — but also a major revision of it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMTuesday, October 10, 2017
Elizabeth McGovern stars as a narcissistic materfamilias in the first Broadway revival of J. B. Priestley’s 1937 metaphysical drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36PMThursday, October 5, 2017
A young black man in 1961 must choose between going to college and joining the Freedom Rides in Jiréh Breon Holder’s play at Roundabout Underground.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMMonday, October 2, 2017
Does having children tame the wild gay spirit? To answer the question, a new satire by Dan Giles looks to an unusual pair of experts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48AMThursday, September 28, 2017
The director John Doyle brings to Shakespeare the same techniques that helped him refresh many a musical. So why doesn’t it work?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMMonday, September 25, 2017
A child’s illness raises existential questions in Amy Herzog’s heartbreaking new play, starring Carrie Coon, at New York Theater Workshop.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMMonday, September 18, 2017
A transgender etiquette expert faces pupils who have bigger issues than what fork to use in Philip Dawkins’s new play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PMFriday, September 15, 2017
In its out-of-town tryout, the stage adaptation of the highest-grossing animated movie of all time offers delights and difficulties.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:05AMWednesday, September 13, 2017
In Sarah Ruhl’s “For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday,” five siblings face the loss of a parent, their own mortality and a fear of flying.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMSunday, September 10, 2017
The playwright Michael Yates Crowley mixes unlikely genres in “The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Grace B. Matthias.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18PMThursday, September 7, 2017
A spate of revivals will allow audiences to consider what’s changed, what hasn’t, and what Bob Mackie has in the sequin drawer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMThursday, August 31, 2017
Group weddings, Korean pop, a superannuated Peter Pan and a transgender Emily Post are among the promising theatrical experiences of September.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMMonday, August 28, 2017
Monday, August 21, 2017
An experimental “Music Man” gets into trouble with a capital T, while a straightforward “Company” gleams and a complicated “Legendary Romance” fades.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMWednesday, August 16, 2017
Theater has quickly taken on the Trump presidency. Whether what’s onstage can change minds or spark action is open to debate.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMMonday, August 14, 2017
Canada’s renowned repertory theater shows off a versatile troupe of actors in plays as varied as “Timon of Athens” and “Guys and Dolls.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:04PMThursday, August 10, 2017
The impish provocateur makes his Broadway debut in a show that’s less post-traumatic Trump therapy than self-aggrandizing autobiography.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:04PMThursday, August 3, 2017
An Encores! Off-Center production of this 1980 musical by Maurice Sendak and Carole King shows how far the story has strayed from the dour books it is based on.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMWednesday, August 2, 2017
If you knew what your life would hold, would you try to change it? And could you succeed? Bruce Norris’s new play answers, “Maybe” and “Not much.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48PMMonday, July 31, 2017
Don’t look for politicians in the Public Theater’s second Central Park production this season — or real tears. Be glad for the comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMThursday, July 27, 2017
Kirsten Childs’s 2000 musical about internalized racism gets a playful, poignant production at Encores! Off-Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PMThursday, July 20, 2017
In Mohammad Al Attar’s new play, a 20-something Syrian is beaten nearly to death. Will his family and friends (and his country) ever recover?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PM 
